3 hours ago, carolineg said:

I think Giovanni Mazza is a real find for the show.  He's a good actor, has musical talent, is hot, and has charisma to spare.   I mean, that checks more boxes than half the cast on GH.  He is definitely not the worst actor on the show lol.

I agree with everything you said, but I also think that BrendaB has a point when she notes that the young actors playing Rocco and Danny feel more natural than Gio. I just think he's naturally very charismatic and charming, and that works for many of his scenes (like his ones with Emma).

But when they ask him to express anger and resentment (as in his scenes with BLQ), he tends to be pretty one-dimensional. He's got a very limited set of "angry" facial and vocal expressions, and it often doesn't feel natural. Of course, he's still growing as an actor, but it does make me hope that Gio reconciles with the Q's soon, because this storyline is not playing to his strengths. 

15 minutes ago, Taoboi said:

I am seriously growing annoyed at how much Trina has lost all agency since I regularly watched. And out of all the black characters on canvas, she was the one to truly break out over the last few years so it's a shame how she has regressed. 

Yup, it's utterly depressing how Trina's storylines--and, seemingly, her whole sense of self--suddenly revolved around Kai, a character who 99% of the audience couldn't care less about. I feel like the only time Trina has been used well in 2025 is when she teamed up with Emma and Gio to prevent the Quartermaine crypt from being bulldozed. She should be mixing it up with the other young characters, and they need to give her some spunk back. 

5 hours ago, Taoboi said:

Is it wrong that I want the 'He' who has Britt is Faison?

My gut tells me it is Jerry Jax.  He has a history of locking doctors up in a lab and demanding that they do research and produce results.  

If it is not Jerry, then I suppose it could be Lorenzo Alcazar.  That would be a lot more interesting, and unexpected.  It could lay the groundwork for Sam to be brought back, since they have history and she is someone he might be inclined to kidnap.

Here are a couple of other possibilities:

Drew Cain.  Maybe he really has gone that far to the dark side.  Of course, maybe Drew is actually Shiloh.

Morgan Corinthos.  Who knows how far he has spiraled without his meds?

To me, the worst acting on the show is usually done by (almost always male) veterans who seem like they’ve lost interest and are coasting. I won’t name names.

Tanisha, for me, falls into the Josh Swickard camp of “models who also act.” I find them both likable, and they usually seem like they’re at least putting in the effort.

I never really mind the younger actors who are growing and improving right before our eyes even if they’re not quite there yet. 

Edited August 14Aug 14 by bossruen

6 hours ago, prefab1 said:

I agree with everything you said, but I also think that BrendaB has a point when she notes that the young actors playing Rocco and Danny feel more natural than Gio. I just think he's naturally very charismatic and charming, and that works for many of his scenes (like his ones with Emma).

But when they ask him to express anger and resentment (as in his scenes with BLQ), he tends to be pretty one-dimensional. He's got a very limited set of "angry" facial and vocal expressions, and it often doesn't feel natural. Of course, he's still growing as an actor, but it does make me hope that Gio reconciles with the Q's soon, because this storyline is not playing to his strengths. 

Mazza isn't the best at anger, but he's improved so much since he started I believe he will continue to get more comfortable.  Isn't this his first acting job?  He was more of an entertainer with his music before I think.

I agree that the young actors that play Rocco and Danny are quite good though.

5 hours ago, StevieM said:

My gut tells me it is Jerry Jax.  He has a history of locking doctors up in a lab and demanding that they do research and produce results.  

If it is not Jerry, then I suppose it could be Lorenzo Alcazar.  That would be a lot more interesting, and unexpected.  It could lay the groundwork for Sam to be brought back, since they have history and she is someone he might be inclined to kidnap.

I would be shocked if we saw either character ever again, especially Alcazar.  

3 hours ago, bossruen said:

Tanisha, for me, falls into the Josh Swickard camp of “models who also act.” I find them both likable, and they usually seem like they’re at least putting in the effort.

I never really mind the younger actors who are growing and improving right before our eyes even if they’re not quite there yet. 

I think Swickard is much better than Tanisha Harper.  He seems able to keep up with the actors around him, so he never sticks out in a bad way to me.  I think the character is useless though. 

I don't think Tanisha is coasting or not trying.  She's just not very good and miscast. She looks the same age as her (invisible) son.  Unfortunately, Jordan has always been a thankless role that doesn't have a lot of purpose.  Vinessa Antoine had the ability to sell the character, but Jordan's never been a high priority for the writers and moves from random story to random story.

Making Drew a bad father on top of everything else is just lazy writing. The ENTIRE town hates him, there’s no need for him to be an objectively horrible dad. 
 

The daily chorus of Britt Was Actually Super Complex & People Really Miss Her Also She Actually Loved Rocco From Afar is some stinky BS. Jason has not mentioned that woman since the first month he came back to town. In fact only about 3 people have talked about since she died. Describe being on the show for a decade or whatever, saving Joss’s life, birthing Rocco and being the last woman Jason allowed to see him without pants on she was a blip in the overall Port Charles ecosystem. They are working overtime to make her seem like she was relevant and it is exhausting.

On top of that KT is a WEAK actress. The entirety of the younger cast is more impressive than anything she’s done.

I quite enjoyed those scenes of Lulu and Dante not putting up with Liesl’s shite. Dante’s barely contained rage was especially satisfying.

9 minutes ago, Darn said:

Making Drew a bad father on top of everything else is just lazy writing. The ENTIRE town hates him, there’s no need for him to be an objectively horrible dad. 

I actually love how they've been writing Drew this week. It's not that he's a bad father exactly--he was clearly genuinely worried when he heard that Scout was missing from camp--but he's just a very selfish one, a guy who's able to swallow his own rationalizations about how he's doing what's best for his daughter even as he causes her pain by keeping her away from her family. 

In a show that's loaded with cartoonish supervillains like Sidwell (and whoever Britt's "big boss" is), Drew has managed to emerge as the show's true villain, but almost all of his villainy is mundane and domestic. Today he hit a new low trying to use his parental rights to keep his child away from her grandmother and brother. But his previous low came when he tried to make a little boy believe his father didn't love him anymore. And before that, it was his constant "love bombing" of Willow. All of which are quite realistic acts of everyday villainy and which, to judge from the reaction online, engage and enrage the viewers a lot more than any of the outlandish schemes that characters like Peter or Sidwell or Victor Cassadine came up with. 

11 hours ago, Taoboi said:

Is it wrong that I want the 'He' who has Britt is Faison?

If it is Faison, maybe they won't bother with Anders Hove and instead will hire some guy who was a supporting character on a network TV show 20 years ago.  

He may not yet be exactly Tony Geary, but I thought Mazza did very well with anger during the reveal fallout after the Nurses Ball. I think he's quite good overall. The kids are fine but I have yet to see Danny convey an emotional scene without grinning his way through it. We complained about it last year. I think AA has raw charisma which helps his weaknesses and he has a good rapport with Finn Carr and Steve, so I'd keep him for now. He plays the roguish, mischievous and overcompensating Danny as well.

Swickard is passable but both he and the atrocious Harper fall under the category of nice people who should not still be employed here, which still covers almost half the cast. Their characters are pointless to me. Chase is BLQ's purseholder/audience fantasy husband and not much else. He has the depth of a puddle.

Edited August 14Aug 14 by Vee

8 hours ago, prefab1 said:

Yup, it's utterly depressing how Trina's storylines--and, seemingly, her whole sense of self--suddenly revolved around Kai, a character who 99% of the audience couldn't care less about. I feel like the only time Trina has been used well in 2025 is when she teamed up with Emma and Gio to prevent the Quartermaine crypt from being bulldozed. She should be mixing it up with the other young characters, and they need to give her some spunk back. 

I've said it before, but Trina should be mixing it up with Emma, Gio and another strong young lead of color, a schemer who can offset her purity the same way Spencer did (or Robin opposite young enforcer Jason). I kept insisting it could be Justus and Faith's kid so I won't go back into that chapter and verse. Anyway, then you could mix and match the couples a bit too since Emma also has a scheming instinct. That quartet can be that older youth scene, and you can add to it or build it out incrementally.

They won't do any of that for the same reason GH is keeping Spencer gone: To keep Trina in her prescribed C-tier role that FV has been most comfortable keeping the Black cast in. The Trina/Kai, Ashford, etc. stuff most resembles his last few years at OLTL or his earliest under Paul Rauch, where all Black folks were 'safely' islanded off together.

8 minutes ago, Vee said:

They won't do any of that for the same reason GH is keeping Spencer gone: To keep Trina in her prescribed C-tier role that FV has been most comfortable keeping the Black cast in.

YEP. It is completely insane that Spencer was basically the second male lead of the show for two years and they still haven’t recast him—a far more dynamic character than Mama’s Boy Michael. 

20 minutes ago, bossruen said:

YEP. It is completely insane that Spencer was basically the second male lead of the show for two years and they still haven’t recast him—a far more dynamic character than Mama’s Boy Michael. 

Trina (and initially, probably hedging their bets hoping Chavez might flop in pilot season and come back) is why. At some level of GH they've always been uncomfortable with that pairing and its popularity. As several of us have said, the instant Tabyana Ali goes off-contract or quits they'll start recasting.

They didn't do it right away when they could've (with GM, IMO) so as of now I wouldn't bring him back immediately, simply because I think it needs the right actor and story to compete with Chavez. But I would introduce another strong character for her as I mentioned, viable competition, and also mix her up romantically with Gio, Emma, etc. Spencer would come later.

Edited August 14Aug 14 by Vee

22 minutes ago, Vee said:

The kids are fine but I have yet to see Danny convey an emotional scene without grinning his way through it. We complained about it last year. I think AA has raw charisma which helps his weaknesses and he has a good rapport with Finn Carr and Steve, so I'd keep him for now. He plays the roguish, mischievous and overcompensating Danny as well.

Agreed.  I think the kids are good in this moment.  I don't see either actor continuing the characters into adulthood like JJ as Lucky or Amber as Emily.  Although the show did keep Haley Pullos. 

I am still perplexed as to why Jake and Aidan have disappeared. 

I'll preface this by saying I don't care if I ever see Charlotte again and I am fine with her erasure on the show.  It is odd she's not even slightly involved in the Rocco story.  They were supposed to be close and they could compare notes on both being stolen embryos.

6 minutes ago, carolineg said:

I am still perplexed as to why Jake and Aidan have disappeared. 

We know why!

I would bring Hudson West back tomorrow but I'm not going to go another round with the haters on him, I think he's great, so there! Aiden I would probably de-SORAS a bit to a much younger teen and play up some more eccentricity re: his culinary prodigy stuff to make him different, a la Molly as a kid. Then I would keep him just a recurring player longer, simply because I have other young people in that range or older I would want to frontburner. I would recast Georgie II as a wallflower (a la her namesake) and play her with charming rebel Danny and shy Rocco and another girl, probably from the Asian Quarter. This is all simple teen stuff soaps used to do in their sleep, but GH doesn't because it has too many characters and also wants to keep playing Sonny, Jason, Carly, etc. like they're 35.

Charlotte can be written off with a tearstained letter and a warning that if she ever comes back to town her non-Spencer mutant blood will combust. I may be kidding on that last part. Sort of.

Edited August 14Aug 14 by Vee

5 minutes ago, carolineg said:

I'll preface this by saying I don't care if I ever see Charlotte again and I am fine with her erasure on the show.  It is odd she's not even slightly involved in the Rocco story.  They were supposed to be close and they could compare notes on both being stolen embryos.

Rocco latching onto Britt as his “mother” could’ve made more narrative sense if Lulu waking up from her coma and immediately racing off to find Charlotte thus making Rocco feel like an afterthought part of the story. I’ve always thought they should have leaned into that, it was such an obvious story point to explore.
 

Instead the teenage mutant has disappeared and Rocco just looks like a little jerk.